Richard Bennett

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Number 2 Pencil is alive and well and off blogspot.
Dean Esmay’s good works are sure to win him in place in Archive Heaven.
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With a cryptic note, the lights are out at Scripting News:

The lack of support, even name-calling, from people who think of themselves as my friend, has got me thinking that maybe this isn’t worth it. And the abuse from others, bordering on cruelty, is intolerable.
Is this related to the recent flap on RSS validators? Whatever’s [...]

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Sad-sack Governor Gray Davis hopes he can intimidate the voters into letting him stay in power to further fatten special interest bellies:

Sacramento — Opponents of the move to recall Gov. Gray Davis are asking their supporters to intimidate signature gatherers and complain of harassment at stores where recall petitions are circulating, stepping up the political [...]

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Unstrung reports that another WiFi chip company is bucks-up and ready to ship:

Bermai’s first round of funding, for $21 million, came in March 2002. “We sized our ‘A’ [round] just about perfectly. We got orders just before we ran out of ‘A’ money,” Sanguinetti says.
As the line at the trough gets longer and more of [...]

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So the consolidation is starting, according to rumors on the acquisition of Intersil by TI:

Wireless LAN chipset vendor Intersil Corp.’s (Nasdaq: ISIL – message board) stock was up today on rumors that the company is going to be acquired by Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN – message board).
TI is renown as a great second-source manufacturer, [...]

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John Burton wants to put a band-aid on the California budget mess:

Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco) said passing a spending plan with Band-Aids offers the best hope of freeing up lawmakers to deal with the budget’s structural problems in time to bring proposals before voters.
“It is like you have a patient with [...]

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Movable Type is putting together a developer’s program and wants your input:

Based on the comments and questions raised about offering support services, we’ll be working on creating a Movable Type Developer/Service Provider Network that will rely more on a software/service-provider relationship rather than that of licensor/licensee. We’d love to hear what you think about this [...]

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A Dog’s Life is now on MT and master of his own domain.
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Matt Welch won a bunch of ribbons and trophies for his writing at an LA Press Club shindig recently, but they only gave him a red for The Politics of Dead Children. I demand a recount.
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Prince of Darkness Bob Novak reports that Calif. Dems urge Davis to resign

Prominent California Democrats are pressing to get Gov. Gray Davis to resign rather than face a recall that may replace him with a Republican governor in a special October election.
And goes on to get the facts on the recall wrong, as Dan Weintraub [...]